On Wednesday we’ll be discussing David Lowery’s eerie new film, The Green Knight, and its source, the anonymous medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In this interview for Vanity Fair, Lowery discusses the process of adaptating the poem for the screen. ‘The anonymous … Continue reading ‘In the screenplay I described them almost as looking like extraterrestrials…’
Another gem from the British Library blog. Here, Julian Harrison from the Medieval Literature team takes a playful look at the illustrations of the original manuscript. ‘Its full-page illustrations have a charm all of their own, even if they were once dismissed as ‘coarsely executed’. … Continue reading ‘…the Green Knight mounted on his green horse holds his severed head aloft’
The original manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is held at the British Library and a wealth of material on the poem, and on Arthurian literature in general, can be found on their blog. In this extract from the introduction to his 2009 … Continue reading ‘Not all poems are stories, but Sir Gawain and the Green Knight most certainly is’
Speakers: Tison Pugh, Sabina Rahman, and Usha Vishnuvajjala. At our 8 December 2021 event we will be considering the recent film The Green Knight (dir. David Lowery and starring Dev Patel and Alicia Vikander) alongside its source text, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a late 14th-century Middle English … Continue reading Cardiff BookTalk: The Green Knight
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